The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.
When you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims
He says that strong men make the luck to happen,
Kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white
Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
One of the agonising truths for a battle medic is that you pray as hard and almost as often for men to die as you pray for them to live.
Niewiele ludzi umiera w Indyjskim Domu Gościnnym, głównie tylko narkomany, takie chude. Dla was nie problem, wy takie piękne, wielkie, tłuste.
The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang...
They slink up beside you, and whisper I thought you should know. Then they proceed to destroy your confidence, and trust, and even the quality of your life with their disgusting fragment of the truth....
The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven’s stars, sure. And
Tell us Lin. I would like to know.Well, if you press me, I’d have to say freedom.The freedom to do what? he asked, putting a little laugh in the last word.I don’t know. Maybe just the freedom to say n...
There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. W...
When you're sober and fit, it's the world that's fucked.
I think I’d like a short, direct answer to every question,’ I replied, laughing. He raised an eyebrow at the foolishness of my flippant response and then shook his head slowly. ‘Do you know the Englis...
Compassion’s a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can’t fake it. I know. I’ve tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to g...
Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they’re not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.
Of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
We can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.
But there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
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